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Flemington

by Violet Jacob

ISBN: 9780862417840
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

'I think it is the best Scots romance since The Master of Ballantrae,' said John Buchan when Flemington was first published in 1911. Violet Jacob's fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of the 1745 Jacobite Rising: tightly written, poetic in its symbolic intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author's own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near Montrose. Drawn back to her roots in her later years, Jacob also wrote many unforgettable short stories about the people, the landscapes and the language of the north-east. In this volume fourteen of these stories are re-collected and re-edited as Tales from Angus.

Violet Jacob, nee Kennedy-Erskine, (1863-1946) was born at the family home at Dun near Montrose on the north-east coast of Scotland, where her family had lived since the fifteenth-century. In 1894 she married Arthur Jacob, an Irish officer serving in the British Army. They lived in India for four years, where she recorded her experiences in journals and diaries, and begun her first novel, The Sheepstealers. Violet returned to England when her husband was called to South Africa: apart from a spell together in Egypt they lived together in garrison towns in England. After the success of The Sheepstealers, Jacob continued to write novels and short stories.

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